The Bridge Curse: Ritual directed by Lester Hsi will open the Kaohsiung Film Festival which will take place from October 7 – 22, 2023 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Opening Ceremony
October 7, 21023 | Saturday | Kaohsiung Main Public Library (7F Ji Hui Auditorium) | 19:00 pm

The Bridge Curse: Ritual by Lester Hsi – Taiwan | 2023 – 101 minutes | Fiction – World Premiere
According to legend, Yangminshan’s Chinese Culture University sits where the realms of the living and dead collide. The architecture was originally given an auspicious “bagua” design to ward off evil, but was instead maliciously changed into an “inverse bagua”. Countless apparition sightings and paranormal incidents have plagued the university ever since.

Three years ago, a student developing an augmented reality horror game at the university fell into a coma following a mysterious elevator accident. To complete the game, his younger sister begins testing the various urban legend-inspired AR challenges with the help of her friends, leading them down a path of increasingly bizarre and terrifying encounters…  (Kaohsiung 2023)

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About the director:
Lester HSI is a Taiwanese filmmaker born in 1979. He began his career as an advertising director before transitioning to film and television. His 2020 feature debut, The Bridge Curse, was a box office smash that went on to become the most viewed Taiwanese film on Netflix that year.

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